The latest Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier reported killed in Iraq overcame drug addiction in her teen years and later served in the Air Force and Army before dying from mortar fire on her first deployment.

Around 4 p.m. Sunday, C.J. Kowall of Murfreesboro got a visit at his home that every parent of a child in the service dreads.His son, Army Spc. Corey Kowall, 20, was killed in a crash after serving in Afghanistan for nearly five weeks.